The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.